Luke wrote:
I hope you never have to go through this Bullsheeeeeet.
sigh. Alright I'll tell you this. So you know my wife and I bought a house in February? So we've never had central air before. We had no idea how it worked or whatever. So it finally starts to get hot a month ago. I lower the thermostat and all that does is just stop the heat from coming on. So I call the HVAC people and they tell me (duh) "you have to turn the AC unit on." Oh. Right. So I go down to the basement and find the circuit breaker for AC and turn it on. Sure enough, now I hear the fans kick on. So I'm excited. But dammit, the vents are just pushing air out. Not cold air. Not air-conditioned air. I look outside and the big fan thingy for the AC is not spinning. I go out there and check, and yup it is switched 'ON'. Oh no... our AC system must be broken. I call the HVAC people back, and they say it's gonna be a couple of weeks before they can get out to us. This is of course the time when everybody's calling them. Unless they want us to come on the weekend which is overtime. So no, I say we'll wait the two weeks and sweat it out (literally). So cut to last weekend. It's still going to be a week before they can get out to us, and it is HOT. Finally, in desperation I resort to Google. I look up our thermostat model and - hey that's weird. Why does the thermostat picture on Google look slightly different than the one on my wall? It seems to have a couple of extra buttons on it. I go and look at our thermostat again. As it turns out Luke, if I had opened the little 'door' on the front of the thermostat, I would have seen the button to switch from HEAT to COOL. I flipped it, and sure enough. AC kicked on perfectly. While I was definitely pissed that I had waited weeks in a hot house to figure this out, I was certainly relieved that I hadn't paid an HVAC guy overtime to come out and say "yup here's your problem" as he flicked a single switch.
Luke wrote:
I hope you never have to go through this Bullsheeeeeet.
sigh. Alright I'll tell you this. So you know my wife and I bought a house in February? So we've never had central air before. We had no idea how it worked or whatever. So it finally starts to get hot a month ago. I lower the thermostat and all that does is just stop the heat from coming on. So I call the HVAC people and they tell me (duh) "you have to turn the AC unit on." Oh. Right. So I go down to the basement and find the circuit breaker for AC and turn it on. Sure enough, now I hear the fans kick on. So I'm excited. But dammit, the vents are just pushing air out. Not cold air. Not air-conditioned air. I look outside and the big fan thingy for the AC is not spinning. I go out there and check, and yup it is switched 'ON'. Oh no... our AC system must be broken. I call the HVAC people back, and they say it's gonna be a couple of weeks before they can get out to us. This is of course the time when everybody's calling them. Unless they want us to come on the weekend which is overtime. So no, I say we'll wait the two weeks and sweat it out (literally). So cut to last weekend. It's still going to be a week before they can get out to us, and it is HOT. Finally, in desperation I resort to Google. I look up our thermostat model and - hey that's weird. Why does the thermostat picture on Google look slightly different than the one on my wall? It seems to have a couple of extra buttons on it. I go and look at our thermostat again. As it turns out Luke, if I had opened the little 'door' on the front of the thermostat, I would have seen the button to switch from HEAT to COOL. I flipped it, and sure enough. AC kicked on perfectly. While I was definitely pissed that I had waited weeks in a hot house to figure this out, I was certainly relieved that I hadn't paid an HVAC guy overtime to come out and say "yup here's your problem" as he flicked a single switch.
Luke wrote:
I hope you never have to go through this Bullsheeeeeet.
sigh. Alright I'll tell you this. So you know my wife and I bought a house in February? So we've never had central air before. We had no idea how it worked or whatever. So it finally starts to get hot a month ago. I lower the thermostat and all that does is just stop the heat from coming on. So I call the HVAC people and they tell me (duh) "you have to turn the AC unit on." Oh. Right. So I go down to the basement and find the circuit breaker for AC and turn it on. Sure enough, now I hear the fans kick on. So I'm excited. But dammit, the vents are just pushing air out. Not cold air. Not air-conditioned air. I look outside and the big fan thingy for the AC is not spinning. I go out there and check, and yup it is switched 'ON'. Oh no... our AC system must be broken. I call the HVAC people back, and they say it's gonna be a couple of weeks before they can get out to us. This is of course the time when everybody's calling them. Unless they want us to come on the weekend which is overtime. So no, I say we'll wait the two weeks and sweat it out (literally). So cut to last weekend. It's still going to be a week before they can get out to us, and it is HOT. Finally, in desperation I resort to Google. I look up our thermostat model and - hey that's weird. Why does the thermostat picture on Google look slightly different than the one on my wall? It seems to have a couple of extra buttons on it. I go and look at our thermostat again. As it turns out Luke, if I had opened the little 'door' on the front of the thermostat, I would have seen the button to switch from HEAT to COOL. I flipped it, and sure enough. AC kicked on perfectly. While I was definitely pissed that I had waited weeks in a hot house to figure this out, I was certainly relieved that I hadn't paid an HVAC guy overtime to come out and say "yup here's your problem" as he flicked a single switch.
Living in Texas all my life has me amazed when I hear of people who haven't had central air. There are some 'winters' I don't even use the heater.
Also, make sure to replace your filters every month or 2
Luke wrote:
I hope you never have to go through this Bullsheeeeeet.
sigh. Alright I'll tell you this. So you know my wife and I bought a house in February? So we've never had central air before. We had no idea how it worked or whatever. So it finally starts to get hot a month ago. I lower the thermostat and all that does is just stop the heat from coming on. So I call the HVAC people and they tell me (duh) "you have to turn the AC unit on." Oh. Right. So I go down to the basement and find the circuit breaker for AC and turn it on. Sure enough, now I hear the fans kick on. So I'm excited. But dammit, the vents are just pushing air out. Not cold air. Not air-conditioned air. I look outside and the big fan thingy for the AC is not spinning. I go out there and check, and yup it is switched 'ON'. Oh no... our AC system must be broken. I call the HVAC people back, and they say it's gonna be a couple of weeks before they can get out to us. This is of course the time when everybody's calling them. Unless they want us to come on the weekend which is overtime. So no, I say we'll wait the two weeks and sweat it out (literally). So cut to last weekend. It's still going to be a week before they can get out to us, and it is HOT. Finally, in desperation I resort to Google. I look up our thermostat model and - hey that's weird. Why does the thermostat picture on Google look slightly different than the one on my wall? It seems to have a couple of extra buttons on it. I go and look at our thermostat again. As it turns out Luke, if I had opened the little 'door' on the front of the thermostat, I would have seen the button to switch from HEAT to COOL. I flipped it, and sure enough. AC kicked on perfectly. While I was definitely pissed that I had waited weeks in a hot house to figure this out, I was certainly relieved that I hadn't paid an HVAC guy overtime to come out and say "yup here's your problem" as he flicked a single switch.
My crotch gets really sweaty in the summer, and sometimes it gets ultra itchy and these patches of waxy gross flaky skin kinda build up on it that peels off in clumps. It's very very uncomfortable.
Jmustang1968 wrote:
Living in Texas all my life has me amazed when I hear of people who haven't had central air. There are some 'winters' I don't even use the heater.
Also, make sure to replace your filters every month or 2
You generally don't need central air in New England. Certainly not Maine. Here it's common to buy one or two window air conditions and call it good. At this house we have a single air conditioner (about $100 from Sam's Club) in the master bedroom. When it's hot everyone hangs out in one room.
Jmustang1968 wrote:
Living in Texas all my life has me amazed when I hear of people who haven't had central air. There are some 'winters' I don't even use the heater.
Also, make sure to replace your filters every month or 2
You generally don't need central air in New England. Certainly not Maine. Here it's common to buy one or two window air conditions and call it good. At this house we have a single air conditioner (about $100 from Sam's Club) in the master bedroom. When it's hot everyone hangs out in one room.
My central air runs about 10 to 10-1/2 months out of each year.
That story make me so happy...<sheds tear>
